Study: Highway Pollution Exposure Could Be Linked to Higher COVID-19 Death Rates
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In California, the people living next to highways, major roads, and polluting industries--and thus subjected to higher levels of pollution--tend to be low-income communities of color.
L.A. City Council to Hear More Proposals for Tenant Protections Today
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I'll be live tweeting debate highlights and decisions via my personal twitter account
S.F. Muni Cuts Transit Service to Core Routes
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Starting Wed., only 17 of Muni's 83 rail and bus lines will be running
There’s No Need For Blanket COVID Park Closures
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...with some very important exceptions.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Home is not a safe place for everyone (Huffington Post)
- Traffic is light, crashes are down, people are driving faster, severity of crashes is up (Land Line, LA Times)
- First responders are at great risk (LA Times)
- New sidewalk rules for COVID (NY Times)
- Cities grapple over whether to give more room to people walking (National Post)
- COVID-19 may change the way people think about bikes (Treehugger)
- Who has emergency authority over elections? (ProPublica)
- Small shops struggle for survival (SF Chronicle)
- Missing racial data worries health officials (LA Times)
- Courts halt all evictions in California (SF Chronicle)
- COVID-19, micromobility, and resilience (NextCity)
- The soundscape is different (Associated Press)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
One Angeleno’s Coronavirus Pandemic Diary: Day 23 – Safe Public Space In Los Angeles
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Other cities are doing quick-build safe streets projects - will this work in L.A.?
DATA DUMP: Total Driving Is Down in All Major U.S. Cities
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Americans are indeed driving less — up to 94 percent less in some places — as the global COVID-19 pandemic keeps people at home, but rural segments of the country are not doing their share to flatten the curve.
Reckless Driving Is the Other COVID-19 Epidemic
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City speed cameras are nabbing far more drivers than they were during the normal, pre-corona days--even though the numbers of cars on the road is down dramatically.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- How CA legislators are governing from home (CalMatters)
- Essential workers are commuting by bike (Fox)
- Sidewalks are too narrow for COVID safety (Planetizen)
- Environmental justice and the unfairness of climate change, explained (Grist)
- Emissions are down, but it won’t last (National Geographic)
- It took a pandemic, but homeless are being given shelter in hotels and motels (CalMatters)
- Landlords find ways to demand rent despite eviction restrictions (LA Times)
- CPUC proposes applying cap-and-trade rebate to utility bills now, while people are home (Bloomberg)
- Santa Barbara area transportation projects approved for funding (Edhat)
- In California, construction continues (Politico)
- Stream this webinar: Designing streets for safety (Curbed)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
Cesar Chavez Day: Honoring Those Who Feed Us, Even Through a Pandemic
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Respect and gratitude to the farmworkers of California.
Beverly Hills Approves Accelerating Subway Construction, Wilshire Boulevard to Close
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Not an April Fools headline: Beverly Hills is supporting Metro subway construction - three blocks of Wilshire will be closed for 1-3 months starting tomorrow